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Word: choosers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...picker and chooser of ways and means, he turns a neat trick on a bunch of Chinese by arranging to ferry them over from Cuba to the Keys, accepts their money, then kills their leader and abandons the rest. Then his luck turns bad. A flier at rum-running results in the confiscation of his boat, the loss of an arm. So the way is paved to the last, most desperate venture of all-an attempt to provide a getaway, in a borrowed boat, for a quartet of bank robbers fleeing from a hold-up at Key West. Morgan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: All Stones End . . . | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

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